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Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 16, 2025

Add transparency support for LightmapGI Currently when baking lightmaps users have to choose between transparent objects casting shadows as if they were fully opaque, or not casting shadows at all. This has been a major limitation in both the quality of lightmap baking and the ergonomics of the lightmap baking workflow.

Beta

Beta Dev Lightmap Baking

Dev snapshot: Godot 4.4 beta 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Lightmap baking improvements Clay John changed the logic for baking direct lighting in LightmapGI to spread it over multiple frames, avoiding a spike of computation that can lead the OS to trigger TDR , resulting in a crash of the GPU context ( GH-102257 ). The experience should be much better already in beta 3.

Beta

Beta Dev Baking Render

Cocos Creator 3.7.2 Focuses On Optimized Rendering And Lighting Capabilities

Cocos

MARCH 26, 2023

Editor • Support baking high-precision lighting maps to get a better baking effect. When the user turns on high-precision lightmap baking, 16-bit colors are used instead of 8-bit colors, and AO channels are baked separately. Still, the disadvantage is that it will increase the lightmap package.

Render

Render Baking Lightmap Debug

GSoC 2022 - Progress report #1

Mircosoft Game Dev

AUGUST 10, 2022

Project: Allow undocking the Script editor and the Shader editor. For things like the Script editor, this means you can move it to another screen, move the undocked window to be side-by-side with the main window, or just using Alt+Tab to change between the main window and the undocked one. Student: trollodel. PR: #62378. Introduction.

Lightmap

Lightmap UX Shaders Debug

Project Structure - Guide to Cocos Cyberpunk Source Code

Cocos

APRIL 14, 2023

2、LightFX The lightmaps generated by the Lightmap Baking System will be automatically stored in this folder, and there is no need to manually modify the contents inside it. 5、scene The cube textures produced by the Reflection Probe baking system will be automatically saved in a folder specific to each scene.

Code

Code Culling Lightmap Render

Cocos Creator 3.7.3 comes with an update to Cocos Effect

Cocos

MAY 9, 2023

. ● Fixed some npm libraries not working due to the use of ‘use strict’ when building scripts. Fixed crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain. Fixed crash issue when baking high-precision Lightmap for the terrain. Fixed copying and pasting nodes would cause problems in some cases.

Terrain

Terrain Render Simulation Texture

Godot 3.3 has arrived, with a focus on optimization and reliability

Mircosoft Game Dev

APRIL 21, 2021

It was reusing parts of the code for baking GIProbes, and that made it quick but not great in terms of quality. The biggest difference with the old lightmapper is that the new one features proper path tracing, which results in better looking lightmaps. New CPU lightmapper. The lightmapper in the previous 3.x 3D editor improvements.

Collision

Collision Lightmap Baking Render

Lesson 6: Game Mode, Play Mode, and Scenes

Game Designing

AUGUST 23, 2023

And we’ll do lots of baking: Lightmaps with multiple Scenes Navmesh data with multiple Scenes Occlusion Culling data with multiple Scenes Lesson 6 Video Transcript Hey there everyone. Keeping that in mind, let’s finally create a script that will let us switch scenes over to level one. Here we go.

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Code Games Scripting Lightmap

Godot 3.0 is out and ready for the big leagues

Mircosoft Game Dev

JANUARY 29, 2018

which would have included new multiplayer networking, visual scripting and many other improvements) because we realized that projects using the new features would no longer work in 3.0, Visual Scripting. Just set up the probe bounds and do a fast pre-bake of static objects. A year ago, we decided to skip the release of Godot 2.2

Render

Render Visual Scripting Shaders Tile

How to Use Unity Cinemachine Virtual Cameras

Game Designing

APRIL 21, 2022

Before Unity Cinemachine, camera movement needed to be directly keyframed or, using code, had to be carefully scripted. When using Cinemachine, you don’t need to know how to write code, though coding is still essential for some components, such as scripting how a user zooms using a mouse wheel, for example. What Is Unity Cinemachine?

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Animation Animation Code Software

Dev snapshot: Godot 3.4 beta 6

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 6, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Editor: Allow dropping property path into script editor ( GH-51629 ). Editor: Auto-reload scripts with external editor ( GH-51828 ). Physics: Expose SoftBody pin methods for scripting ( GH-52369 ).

Beta

Beta Dev Mesh Render

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 1

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 19, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Editor: Allow dropping property path into script editor ( GH-51629 ). Editor: Auto-reload scripts with external editor ( GH-51828 ). Physics: Expose SoftBody pin methods for scripting ( GH-52369 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 2

Mircosoft Game Dev

OCTOBER 27, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Editor: Allow dropping property path into script editor ( GH-51629 ). Editor: Auto-reload scripts with external editor ( GH-51828 ). Physics: Expose SoftBody pin methods for scripting ( GH-52369 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

Release candidate: Godot 3.4 RC 3

Mircosoft Game Dev

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). C#: Fix reloading tool scripts in the editor ( GH-52883 ). Editor: Allow dropping property path into script editor ( GH-51629 ). Editor: Auto-reload scripts with external editor ( GH-51828 ). Physics: Expose SoftBody pin methods for scripting ( GH-52369 ).

Mesh

Mesh Render Shaders Animation

The next big step: Godot 4.0 reaches Beta

Mircosoft Game Dev

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Last but not least, lightmaps baking is now done using the GPU to speed up the process significantly. Scripting them is simpler now as well. The new NavigationServer supports fully dynamic environments and on-the-fly navigation mesh baking. Sometimes user-level scripting is not enough, though. GDExtension.

Beta

Beta Engineering Engine Feature

Cocos Creator 3.8 Post-Process Shader Writing (2/2) Advanced

Cocos

AUGUST 16, 2023

Create a new TS script file named “GaussianBlur.ts” and enter the following code. Prioritize the scene to use lightmap to bake AO so that even if HBAO is turned off, the effect is still not bad. We can achieve the same experience as the built-in post-processing effects by customizing the post-processing effects on our own.

Shaders

Shaders Writing Pixel Render

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